8-bit en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌeɪtˈbɪt/
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of a word size or an integer, represented using units of 8 bits (1 byte).
I started creating 8-bit music around 2002 when I picked up nanoloop[…]
2007, Nick Collins, Julio d'Escriván, The Cambridge companion to electronic music, page 189:
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(not-comparable) Originating from or resembling the art or music of the 8-bit computer era.
Much of La-Mulana's 8-bit aesthetic is tied to its self-imposed graphical limitations. To start, the native resolution of 256 × 192 pixels is (as we would expect) much less than that of contemporary standards[…]
2008 November 12, Brett Camper, “Retro Reflexivity: La-Mulana”, in Bernard Perron, Mark J.P. Wolf, editors, The Video Game Theory Reader 2, Routledge, →ISBN:Typically far more complex than the songs of the 8-bit games, songs in Amiga games had a highly varied structure, but usually followed the same basic principles seen in the 8-bit games (shorter loops with fewer distinct sections for battle music, and longer loops with more distinct sections for in-game music).
2008 January 1, Karen Collins, Game Sound: An Introduction to the History, Theory, and Practice of Video Game Music and Sound Design, MIT Press, →ISBN:
- (broadly, not-comparable, proscribed) Originating from or resembling the art or music of the 8-bit computer era and subsequent eras.
Translations (16)
fa ۸-بیت (represented using 8 bits) · pl 8-bitowy (represented using 8 bits) · fi kasibittinen (represented using 8 bits) · pl ośmiobitowy (represented using 8 bits) · fi kahdeksanbittinen (represented using 8 bits) · tr 8-bitlik (represented using 8 bits) · fa 8-بیت (represented using 8 bits) · hy 8-բիթանի (represented using 8 bits) · ja 8ビット (represented using 8 bits) · ko 8비트 (represented using 8 bits) · ro de 8-biți (represented using 8 bits) · cs osmibitový (represented using 8 bits) · ru восьмиби́тный (represented using 8 bits) · fi 8-bittinen (represented using 8 bits) · cmn 8位元 (represented using 8 bits) · hu 8 bites (represented using 8 bits)